Medora’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Medora. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Medora was laid out in 1853 by West Lee Wright in the southeast corner of a square mile of land which he owned. Wright named the town Medora (pronounced Me Doe Rae) for the musical notes & dubbed it "The Town of Harmony", though it is commonly mispronounced in the most unharmonious way today. It consisted of 10 blocks and 209 lots.
Medora is the setting of John Mellencamp's "Hurts So Good" music video.
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Start Medora’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Medora’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo2 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewMedora Bridge, Spanning East Fork…: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Medora
See all 1 →Medora, decade by decade
2000
unknown2 items
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Medora Bridge, Spanning East Fork of White River at State Route 235 and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1) and the Library of Congress (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.